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Brian Eno

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Everybody is entertained to death.


— Brian Eno


#entertained #everybody

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.


— Brian Eno


#always #come #everybody #import #job

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.


— Brian Eno


#dangerous #erupt #evaluation #feelings #grow

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.


— Brian Eno


#before #called #combination #established #fairly

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.


— Brian Eno


#always #contingent #first #getting #kind

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.


— Brian Eno


#hidden #honor #intention #thy

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.


— Brian Eno


#better #could #development #far #feeling

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.


— Brian Eno


#always #got #guitar #i #i always

I believe in singing.


— Brian Eno


#i #i believe #i believe in #singing

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.


— Brian Eno


#hear #i #me #mood #soon






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This enabled sound recorded on the first deck to be played back by the second deck at a time delay that varied with the distance between the two decks and the speed of the tape (typically a few seconds). These tapes had previously been used as backgrounds in some of his collaborations with Fripp most notably on Evening Star. Eno has also worked on records by James Laurie Anderson Coldplay Depeche Mode Paul Simon Grace Jones and Slowdive among others.

It has also been extremely influential pioneering ambient and generative music innovating production techniques and emphasising "theory over practice". Brian Peter George St. Eno's solo music has explored more experimental musical styles and ambient music.

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